Answers to the Most Asked Questions About Our Hospice
Hospice care is a service for people with serious illnesses who choose not to get (or continue) treatment to cure or control their illness. Instead of trying to cure the disease, hospice intends to provide comfort to the patient and the family. Hospice aims to provide comfort and peace to help improve the quality of life for the person nearing death.
Anyone with a serious illness who has been diagnosed by their physician to have a life-limiting disease or condition with an estimated 6 months or less, usually qualifies for hospice care.
Patients should consider hospice services when medical treatments can no longer cure their disease and/or symptom burden outweighs the benefits of treatment. Those receiving hospice care early in the process of a life-limiting illness are able to experience the benefits of pain relief, symptom management and comfort care to ease anxiety, depression and fatigue, allowing for quality time with loved ones.
Hospices care for people where they live. Hospice care is typically provided wherever the patient considers to be home, which could be their own home, the home of a loved one, or a nursing home or assisted living.
Hospice care can provide a range of different services depending on the patient’s symptoms and end of life care wishes. These include an individualized plan of care, medications related to the hospice diagnosis, medical equipment, routine visits by nursing staff, as well as social and spiritual services.
Each patient has an individualized care plan that is developed by the Hospice team. The goal is to keep the patient as pain-free as possible, with the loved ones nearby. The Comforting Hands Hospice team consists of a medical director, hospice nurses, certified home health aides, a chaplain, and a medical social worker.
Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer/dementia, lung disease, kidney disease and stroke.
Most people receiving hospice care are covered by the Medicare Hospice Benefit. This benefit covers the vast majority of expenses (often 100%) with little out-of-pocket expense to the patient or family. It is important to note that the Medicare Hospice Benefit will not pay for treatments of prescriptions aimed at curing a terminal illness.
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